ART TRANSPORT 2024
Medium: Screen print on canvas
Dimensions: 270 × 210 cm

ART TRANSPORT originates from an ongoing personal archive of speed camera images, collected over several years during the transport of artworks. These unintended photographs capture moments in which individual movement intersects with automated systems of surveillance, producing images that are both functional and involuntarily aesthetic.

At the center of the work is a radar image of the artist’s own vehicle a white car, isolated and exposed within the logic of technological observation. This image entered into dialogue with White Disaster, encountered during research at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. Warhol’s exploration of accident, repetition, and emotional detachment through mechanical reproduction becomes a reference point for rethinking the contemporary image economy.

By translating the radar photograph into a large-scale screen print, Halbouni shifts the image from documentation to representation. What was originally produced as evidence within a system of control is recontextualized as an aesthetic object—revealing how images of potential catastrophe circulate, detach from their origin, and acquire new meanings through repetition and display.

The accompanying works on paper extend this process through layering and serial variation. They explore the tension between individuality and standardization, spontaneity and automation reflecting on how contemporary visual culture is shaped by systems that continuously record, reproduce, and redistribute images.

Rather than depicting mobility as freedom, ART TRANSPORT exposes it as a condition structured by surveillance, regulation, and risk. The work situates the automobile not only as a symbol of autonomy, but as a site where technological control, media imagery, and latent catastrophe converge.